Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.
Here is, I. Leah fruitful again, after she had, for some time, left off bearing. Jacob, it should seem, associated more with Rachel than with Leah. The law of Moses supposes it a common case that, if a man had two wives, one would be beloved and the other hated, Deu 21:15.
Commenting on Genesis 30:14-24
And afterwards she bare a daughter,.... Which some writers, as Aben Ezra observes, say, was at the same birth with Zebulun, a twin with him; but being said to be afterwards shows the contrary: and called her name Dinah; which signifies "judgment": perhaps she may have some reference to the first son of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, whom she called Dan, a name of the same...
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. (f) Instead of acknowledging her fault she boasts as if God had rewarded her for it.